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I really hate how F2 will mute the speakers or something on half the machines I touch. I want to shoot whoever decided that a key's primary function requires modifier key.
The good ones let you choose. The sad thing is that I am absolutely not entirely sure which mapping is best. It is handy to have display and keyboard lighting hot keys there.
Most modern ones have an fnlock somehow (fn+escape typically). Set it and forget it.
My real annoyance is that I have an airmouse+keyboard thing for my Pi that doesn't have function keys at all. Dude, why?
I've changed the Fn key to be off by default in BIOS.
The problem is that I jump on a lot of other people's PCs, and it's wildly different every time. Half the time I'm using someone else's PC, it's to fix something, and I'm dancing all over the hotkeys to refresh stuff, rename files, take screenshots and open system dialogs.